Professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who pr ...

Jean-Marc Jézéquel is a French

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

. Professionally, Jean-Marc Jézéquel worked as a computer scientist at the

University of Rennes 1 The University of Rennes 1 is a public university located in the city of Rennes, France. It is under the Academy of Rennes. It specializes in science, technology, law, economics, management and philosophy. There are currently about students en ...

, France. His research contributions have laid the foundations of the theory of

Model-driven architecture Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model Driven Architecture is a kind of doma ...

. From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of

IRISA The is a joint computer science research center of CNRS, University of Rennes 1, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes and Inria, in Rennes in Brittany. It is one of the eight Inria research centers. Created in 1975 as a spin-off of the University of Renn ...

and then Vice President of

Informatics Europe Informatics Europe is the European association of university departments and research laboratories, in the field of informatics (also known as computer science). Overview Founded in 2006,Bertrand Meyer and Willy Zwaenepoel, ''European Computer Sci ...

Education and academic career

Jean-Marc Jézéquel received an engineering degree from

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in 1986 and a PhD from the

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in 1989. He then worked for the

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company on an Intelligent Network project. In 1991, he became a researcher (Chargé de recherche) at the

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

(Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). During most of 1996, he has been an invited researcher in Pr. Yonezawa's lab, in the

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. Since October 2000, he has been Professor of Software Engineering at University of Rennes 1, where he pursued research on the foundations of

Model Driven Engineering Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract r ...

. From 2000 to 2012 he headed an

Inria The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...

research team called Triskell. From January 2012 to December 2020, he was Director of

, a 800 people public research lab in informatics. From January 2021 he is Vice President of

. In 2016 he received the Silver Medal from CNRS.http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/recherche/prix/medaillesargent.htm In 2020, he received the Career Award from th
IEEE/ACM Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
conference, which recognizes his long-standing scientific contributions to the MDE community and his exemplary activity for the younger members of the MODELS community. From January 2022 to April 2022, he was a visiting professor at

McGill University McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter granted by King George IV,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill Universit ...

Publications

Books, a selection * ''Engineering Modeling Languages: Turning Domain Knowledge into Tools'', CRC Press, 2016. * ''Ingénierie Dirigée par les Modèles : des concepts à la pratique'', Éditions Ellipses, 2012 * ''Design Patterns and Contracts'', Addison-Wesley, 1999 * ''Object Oriented Software Engineering with Eiffel'', Addison-Wesley, 1996 Articles, a selection: * Design by contract: The lessons of Ariane, with

Bertrand Meyer Bertrand Meyer (; ; born 21 November 1950) is a French academic, author, and consultant in the field of computer languages. He created the Eiffel programming language and the idea of design by contract. Education and academic career Meyer recei ...

, 1997 * Making components contract aware, Computer 32 (7), 1999 * Refactoring UML models, UML 2001 * Weaving executability into object-oriented meta-languages, MODELS 2005 * Automatic test generation: A use case driven approach IEEE Trans on Software Engineering, 2006 * Models at runtime to support dynamic adaptation, Computer 42 (10), 2009

Notes and references

External links

JM Jézéquel's web page
Living people French computer scientists 1964 births {{France-compu-bio-stub